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Comparison of Two Bacterial Characterization Techniques for the Genomic Analysis of River Microbiome

Roberto Bonnelly
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Victor V. Calderon
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Irene Ortiz
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Argenys Ovando
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Confesora Pinales
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Willy Lara
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Santo Emilio Mateo-Perez
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Oscar Victor Cardenas-Alegría
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Rommel Thiago Jucá Ramos
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Yaset Rodríguez-Rodríguez
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Luis Orlando Maroto Martín
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Edian Franklin Franco De Los Santos
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These authors contributed equally to the work.
Version 1 : Received: 11 July 2023 / Approved: 11 July 2023 / Online: 11 July 2023 (09:30:41 CEST)

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Bonnelly, R.; Calderon, V.V.; Ortiz, I.; Ovando, A.; Pinales, C.; Lara, W.; Mateo-Perez, S.E.; Cardenas-Alegria, O.; Ramos, R.T.; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Y.; Martín, L.O.M.; Franco, E.F. Comparison of Two Bacterial Characterization Techniques for the Genomic Analysis of River Microbiomes. Appl. Microbiol. 2023, 3, 1037-1045. Bonnelly, R.; Calderon, V.V.; Ortiz, I.; Ovando, A.; Pinales, C.; Lara, W.; Mateo-Perez, S.E.; Cardenas-Alegria, O.; Ramos, R.T.; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Y.; Martín, L.O.M.; Franco, E.F. Comparison of Two Bacterial Characterization Techniques for the Genomic Analysis of River Microbiomes. Appl. Microbiol. 2023, 3, 1037-1045.

Abstract

We compared the performance of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization followed by a time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry and genomic DNA extraction followed by sequencing, assembly, and alignment for phylogenetic assessment (Genomics method). We collected the samples from four contaminated rivers in the Dominican Republic and analyzed MALDI-TOF efficacy and accuracy for identifying bacteria in the samples. We evaluated the results for both methods (MALDI-TOF and Genomics) and reported a similarity percentage between each method's results. The MALDI-TOF method had a 72.41\% of coincidence with the Genomics method. This could have been sequence contamination found in the Genomics method. When it was later filtered, the result's coincidence rate went up to 90\%.

Keywords

MALDI-TOF; enviromental; Rivers; Genomics method; Dominican Republic

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Life Sciences

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